Normalize understanding that men and women aren’t very different in this regard. I once asked a girl what was going on in her head and she was thinking about stinkbugs, and if you could handle them carefully enough to not get stanked.
Did… did you marry her?
It’s sad that I read this and the first thought was not about how similar we can be but more, “well…I suppose if you were gentle…”
No, women need to understand how interesting the making of bike tires is.
If you aren’t willing to engage with your partner about their weird little interests, don’t expect them to engage with you about yours. This goes for all genders.
Healthy relationships are about sharing all the odd things going in your head with someone receptive to and interested in those odd things.
This is called knowing somebody and it really feels like it’s an utterly lost concept now. It’s no wonder people are abandoning relationships right now, people never talk about the rewards, only made-up problems and conflicts get circulated.
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Because some women love calling men dumb or stupid online and then wonder why boys become incel/redpill men in the future.
I’m not saying that many men online aren’t doing the same to women. I’m just tired, as a man, to go online and see memes diminishing men, and when I try to address it, nobody seems to care.
The same women that mock men for refusing to go to the doctor are the same women that mock men when they get sick.
They start with a conclusion (“men bad!”) and back-solve.
100%. When my wife asks me this question, I always ask…“are you sure you want to know?”.
Once it was the astronomical odds of reincarnation if bacteria was a factor when reincarnating. The math just isn’t there and your odds of coming back as a human would be older than the universe.
She rarely asks me this ever now lol.
It’s a quick reset, though. You’ll get back to human eventually unless you end up as one of those immortal trees or something.
I mean, being a tree isn’t that bad
It is in this boomer run, fuck the environment world.
Unless you’re a Bradford Pear. 🤮
Imagine rolling tardigrade.
I hope after this I’m always born as anything but a human.
Whoops, now I’m a fungal colony / gestalt consciousness… untill the planet I’m on gets killed by its star?
Is that how you… achieve, or totally avoid samsara?
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If a single celled organism successfully divides, is it dead? Wouldn’t a single cell eventually grow into a colony of clones, copying itself indefinitely until some random mutation or outside force prevents it from reproducing? Where would it be considered appropriate for us to consider a single celled organism dead?
When it dies. Clones are individuals, with individual rights that are the same as any other individual. #clonerights #clonesarepeopletoo #justpassionateforafriend
If cells never died the universe would be nothing but solid amoeba.
That would imply that bacteria have souls which means that I’m committing genocide each time I’m cleaning my toilet. I always assumed that you could only reincarnate into creatures complex enough to actually have sentience.
Edit: Also a fun fact is that if you count all human beings that have ever lived in the entire human history it would still not be close enough to the number of bacteria that live in or on a single human being (roughly 117 billion humans compared to around 20 to 30 trillion bacteria).
Isn’t there a sect that kinda believes exactly this?
Jainism believes this. Their monks carry little brooms around to sweep ahead of them so they won’t crush any insects by stepping on them.
Well if what your reincarnated as dependent on how good of a person you are these odds make sense if you look at humanity as a hole
being “good” is relative considering humans destroyed most of the ecosystem
Two things:
First, mathematically, It’s sort of a moot concern. Reincarnation comes with the framework that lives are the universe experiencing itself. So There’s no “loss” in going between species as “you” will actually incarnate as everything and everyone once in non-linear time on the backend making “time” immaterial. I am you and you are me. We are all one existence. So you have time.
Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.
I am you and you are me.
Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.
That sounds extraordinarily arbitrary. Who decides what counts as a “level up”? Does that mean if you start as a bacteria you’re stuck like that for a few thousand or million cycles? How would you earn enough karma points to level up from being a bacteria? What counts as “deeper and more meaningful lifetimes” if you are a bacteria?
Apologies, I totally missed the most essential part of this all:
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Who decides what counts as a “level up”?
Well, you do, ultimately. Remember, you’re talking about a system where there is agency between lifetimes as well. I’m not familiar enough with non-human karmic mechanics to definitively tell you, but in most systems it’s that you a “burning off” the karma of being en evil asshole by being demoted from human to less sentient lifeforms. So sending Hitler or Cecil Rhodes or Andrew Jackson would then indeed spend 40,000 lifetimes being killed over and over again before getting back in the running to have a central nervous system.
Exactly and the math doesn’t give this theory a chance really, unless humans create the sentience. Coming back as “anything” would now include the bacteria and whatever else from other planets. Which even doubled, you would have to wait until entire universes recycle.
Does “waiting” have any meaning in this metaphysics? Arguably not.
Depends on the definition of “soul”. Too small a vessel and stuff.
Normalize having absurd and weird conversations between loved ones.
100x this.
I don’t know about everyone, but I find that these types of conversations can be stimulating/interesting
Normalize to just be quiet sometimes between loved ones.
Sure, if that’s what y’all want! Ideally that’s ironed out before long-term commitments like marriage.
Then she asks him if he’d still love her if she was an amoeba.
I would have to leave out of fear… I don’t think I know how to take care of an amoeba, and the last thing I want to do is accidentally breathe you in or something 😔
That’s when you know she’s a keeper.
How is that dumb?! Can you explain how bike tires are made then? Yeah, that’s what I thought!!
They extrude the rubber into a tube then melt the ends together and valve into the side.
I’m sorry I’m going to need a 15-minute video with lots of cheesy very unfunny jokes.
Here is 25 Minutes about a bike tire is produced from dandelions. Though it’s only in German. But that also means there are no jokes.
This is an astoundingly perfect reference, bravo
Bicycle tires were invented by Dunlop and improved by Michelin.
You know these names, because it actually wasn’t a dumb idea.
Im a girl and half the time my brain is just spinning Maxwell cat gif, the other half I’m either thinking about theory or Linux :3
What kind of theory? I’m not sure what that means to “think about theory.”
In case its not obvious socialist and anarchist theory :3
You are the physical embodiment of Lemmy.
No it wasn’t obvious lol
I am a db0 admin so I thought it was :3
Truly a " :3 " moment
:3
Why would it be obvious? In-between cats and Linux it could be veterinary theory, social media theory, computer science theory, math theory. How would one think anything political is involved, let alone something as specific.
To be clear, nothing wrong with you not mentioning it in the original comment, but I’m very confused on why you thought it was obvious.
Totally unrelated, but you helped me think of a fun fraction/percentage math question for my kid.
Any chance I get to post this is a good one.
“dumb shit”?! I -and I’d bet all the brave bike tyre workers around the world- feel deeply offended.
They’re two tyred from work to be offended by random tweets
Every meme woman owes those workers an apology.
And also - yeah, it’s usually dumb. There are rabbit holes EVERYWHERE.
I had just bought a Camry Hybrid and my wife and I were driving in it doing errands… I have a tell when something is on my mind and my wife invariably asks what it is. Usually it really isn’t anything significant and that time was no different…
Except…
I launched into a very detailed explanation as to how the Toyota Hybrid Synergy system really works and it lasted till we got home… Did I mention we had three stops and we’re on our way to the first?
She has not asked what is on my mind since.
This is a tragedy to me, one of the many reasons I married my wife is because she’s the only person who has ever been excited to hear my info dumps.
Same, I feel so bad for people whose spouses aren’t interested. I hope they’re exaggerating here, because the story is sad.
My story, I’m a giant train nerd. Any types, got model trains, ride them frequently, it’s my thing. For the first few years I was terrified to mention it, and man do I regret not doing it earlier. She is interested because I’m interested! She now shares my interests with me. We’ve gone on now 6 or so long distance sleepers here in the states and love it. I can’t imagine having a spouse who actively didn’t want to share interests
That’s so freaking cute! My spouse is a dino and space babe and while I’ve never been invested enough to really get into either, I love learning and I love her excitement. So we take turns info dumping and I now have a new found love for paleontology.
That’s so awesome, that’s a fun world to explore! I wish you many fun times exploring old bones!
She still asks on occasion, but she takes me more seriously when I say it’s nothing all that important.
Oh if I’m thinking through something that we both need to have a say in I absolutely share my thoughts as she does with me. j
That’s a bit more comforting to hear. I love a story about healthy communication.
My spouse now knows more about 3d printing and the complex geopolitical state of fantasy settings than most actual fans do.
How is that dumb shit? Tires are high tech!
I guess because a boy thought it
